Do a search with the Google search engine with the keyword "LaTeX". You will find several good Internet sites that contain introductions to LaTeX. For example,

• http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html
• http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/

Here is a sample LaTeX file sample.tex. You may use it as a reference to produce your homework write-ups. The document also has a figure nfa.eps, which was created using a graph drawing software called xfig. Download both files without changing file names. Then follow the Unix commands suggested next.

• latex sample (Comment: This will create sample.dvi)
• xdvi sample (Comment: This will display the .dvi file)
• dvips -Php121 sample (Comment: This will print the document on the printer in McGl 121)

Here are some more commands you may want to know:

• dvips -o sample.ps sample.dvi (Comment: This will convert sample.dvi to sample.ps)
• gv sample.ps (Comment: This will display the .ps file)
• ps2pdf sample.ps sample.pdf (Comment: This will convert sample.ps to sample.pdf)
• acroread sample.pdf (Comment: This will display the .pdf file)